Hat-brim press.



F. HERR.

HAT BRIM' PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13, 1913.

1,093,411. Patented A111114, 1914.

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HAT-BEIM PRESS.

To all fr0/wm it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK HERR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Astoria, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Hat-Brim Press, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a press of the character mentioned with means for stretching the brim while in the press and under control; to provide power means manually operable for exerting an extra pressure upon the material forming the brim, said means being controllable to conform to the inherent conditions of various materials; and to simplify the mechanism by which the operation is performed.

One embodiment of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichligure 1 is an elevation of a press having mounted thereon an auxiliary plunger constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, a shape being shown in section and as mounted on the bed table; Fig. 2 is a detail view showing in vertical section a shape, an auxiliary plunger and mounting therefor, constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a modified form of the auxiliary plunger and a shape to be used in conjunction therewith.

As seen in the drawings, the cross head 8 of the conventional press is provided with a boss 9 centrally located to receive a screwthreaded shaft 10. The shaft 10 is provided with a hand wheel 11 at the upper end thereof, and is rotatively mounted in a socket 12. The socket 12 is raised on a` bolting plate 13, to which is suitably secured a palette or plunger plate 1-1. rlhe bolting plate 13 has one or more bosses 15 on which is rigidly mounted a guide rod or rods 1G. rlhese rods serve to hold in line the plate 1-1- with the recess 17 of a shape 1S. The shape 18 is of conventional construction, having resting legs 19 for supporting the shape on a table 20.

The cross head 8 has depended therefrom a clamping ring 21 of conventional shape and mounting, which ring 21 is arranged to strike upon an annular odset 22 with which the shape 18 is provided, to clamp rigidly Patented Apr. 11i, 1914i.

serial No. 773,425.

the material A from which the hat brim is `being constructed. As in the conventional presses,v the cross head 8 and parts connected therewith are drawn down into oaerating relation upon the shape 18 by means of a foot power treadle L3.

llhen the cross head S and ring 21 connected therewith are moved down to clamp the material A, to hold the edge thereof on the offset 22, the palette 1l rests lightly above the material where thc same extends across the recess 17. rlhe interior of the recess 17 and the periphery of the palette la are formed to the shape of the head of the wearer. By now rotating the shaft 10 by means of the hand wheel 11, the palette is forced down upon the material A until rigidly clamped between the periphery of the palette 14k and the side of the shape 18. ln this position, the brim is permitted to dry.

lt will be noted that the above-described movement of the palette la has been accomplished by stretching the material A forming the hat brim. ln this position, the material is permitted to dry, the brim thereafter retaining its shape as imparted by the press.

lt is obvious that the auxiliary press having the palette 1st, shaft 10 and hand wheel 11,.permits an Yextra amount of pressure to be applied to the material from which the brim is being constructed, unaccompanied by the danger which would otherwise be present if the pressure was exerted by the machine uncontrolled by the hand of the operator.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings, a modified form of shape and palette are shown. ln this tigure, the shape 24e is provided with a central opening or passage 25, and with an annular groove 2G. A palette 27 is also provided with an anvil head 2S and an eyeleted pendent shank 29. lVhen using the modified form of shape and palette, the material A is preliminarily stretched over the shape and bound thereon by a wire 30. The material A is perforated to provide a passage for the shank 29, which is then placed in position on the shape, to rest upon the materiale above the passage 25. A maul is now employed for striking upon the anvil head 28 to drive the palette 27 to its seat at the upper end of the passage 25. This extends the shank 29 below the lower face of the shape Qa to permit the insertion of the tapered pin 3l through the eyelet formed in the loWer end of the shank 29. rIhe pin 3l having been inserted through said eyelet, to bridge the passage 25, serves thereafter as a power-augmenting element to increase the pressure or pull of the palette 9,7 to draw the material more tightly over the shape 24. This is accomplished by driving the tapered pin 25 through the eyelet in the shank 29.

Claim.

A press as characterized, comprising a table; a cross head; a clamp-ing ring mounted on said cross-head; means for raising and lowering said cross-head and clamping ring; a hat-brim shape adapted to rest on said table and embodying an annular offset and a central. depression, said oil'set regis tering with, and forming a seat for, said clamping ring; a relatively thin plunger plate adapted to fit Within said depression to shape an inner edge of a hat-brim and to mark the same for guidance in cutting awa-y the center of the material of which the hatbrim is composed; and a manually manipulated auxiliary press for said plunger plate to force the same into said central depression after the cross-head and clamping ring have been placed in service relation.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK HERR.

lVitnesses JEROME FLEISCH, HANS PETERSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the f Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

